It’s a risky business, voting. The problem is you’re just encouraging them.
Forget the fact that Brash is an incompetent warmonger who desperately wants to be another one of Bush’s poodles. Now you’ve got a bona fide middle-class reason to vote Green or Labour.
“The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign — over 95 percent of all the incidents — has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.”
Today I received a copy of Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas about ourselves, edited by Russell Brown, which was surprisingly quick. Presumably it was distributed from within the UK somewhere. It’s a good looking book; the cover appears as if it might be a picture of Russell and his kid walking down a country road (I’ll have to ask him). Well chosen fonts, a good layout and obviously meticulous editing make it easy on the eye too. I only wish I’d been able to get a hardback version as this is a book I’d like to last.
Russell Brown launches his first book, Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas about ourselves.
Here’s an idea: vote National, live a life of resentment.
Someone with the username magnacarta has posted a message on ACCforum.org today alleging that doctors and ACC employees have been scamming “significant” amounts of money out of the Crown entity “over some considerable period of time.” Although the website appears to have degenerated into a huge bitchin session and the allegations appear to be politically motivated, they’re also pretty sensational, which is a good enough reason to post them here.
A reader over at frogblog explains the history behind and the justifications given for charging a rate of interest on student loans anything more than inflation. Not surprisingly the free-market fundies of Labour and ACT had a major part to play.
For those of you who don’t know May Day is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the western labour movement.